housing constellations
Systemic constellations (also known as “family constellations”) is a method developed in the late twentieth century by the German missionary Bert Hellinger, drawing on ideas of kinship, space, and ancestry partly inspired by Zulu traditions - influences that contemporary practitioners are increasingly working to acknowledge more explicitly as part of decolonising the practice. At its core, the method uses bodies, spatial relations, and perception to trace the dynamics within the systems we are part of.
Over the past decades, constellation work has expanded far beyond the nuclear family into many different social contexts. In this workshop, we will explore questions and tensions that can emerge in any form of cohabitation.
It is an opportunity to physicalise and reflect on the patterns that shape relationships in shared homes, friendships, work environments, and society at large.
This also forms the basis of the 2026 film We need to speak about living room.